Great catchy sing-a-long tunes and truly talented singing

Great job with this set of songs.  Eclectic group of songs.  I would classify as Americana.  Voice is very strong...country soul.  Love the drum sound.  This one is my favorite.

whoops @manetzma I accidentally deleted your comment! silly me, was meaning to delete mine to say Thank you <3 It's one of the tough ones to play but we get through it!

Your voice is amazing. I am envious of your natural talent.

There is something a comin'
I can feel it now
It's got me thinkin' of runnin'
To find my way, to figure out
How best to survive, take the wheel and just drive
I've no room for anyone else, no way, no how 

It's not that we don't like each other 
This I understand
Or that we're born just to suffer
To convince ourselves that our only plan
Is a solitary, selfish journey 
No cares for the woes of the common man

There are dangers, oh, by god it's true
But they're the same for me 
as they are for you

If I don't lean on my brother
He won't ask of me 
A similar favor
To rely on friends, oh it has a fee
I'd rather lock the door, throw away the key
Than risk my life for another soul in need 

Yes, we're all being hunted 
I can feel they're eyes
They want what I've plundered
I can see through each, cold disguise 
It's you, it's me, what a hell to be free
Take aim at the loneliest creature alive  

There are dangers, oh, by god it's true
But they're the same for me 
as they are for you

The Four Oxen And The Lion

A live studio album that captures Abbie and her Leading Men LIVE and ROCKN! This album was recorded COMPLETELY in single takes with ZERO overdubs! Mixed by Nick Didia (USA) 2010

Oh The Places You Will Go

Woman (N O U S)

"Rock Bottom" is an anthem for the downtrodden.

Written by Scarlett Compton
Performed by Lonesome Doves
Engineered and Mixed by Sean Compton

Ukulele, Vox- Scarlett 
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Organ- Sean 

Recorded March 19, 2016 at our home in Denver, Colorado.
Copyright 2016 @ Lonesome Doves. All Rights Reserved. 

Rock Bottom

'American Kids' produced by Sylvia Massy.  

© War Twins 2018

American Kids

ILLINOIS, I COULD WRITE YOU IN A POEM 
ILLINOIS I COULD PUT YOU IN A SONG 
BUT THE INK KEEPS BLEEDING THROUGH THE PAPER
SO NOW I MUST MOVE ON

ILLINOIS I AM YOUR FAVORITE STEP SON 
A SANTA CLAUS SEARS TOWER IN YOUR SKY 
A POEM FOR EVERY BAND WHO STOOD BEFORE ME
I JUST NEEDED THREE MORE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME 

I WANT TO BE A LEGEND IN MY LIFETIME 
A STREET SIGN OF MY NAME WHERE I AM FROM
ILLINOIS I REALLY DO LOVE YOU MADLY 
BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW I DON'T BELONG

AND I THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE SHOWN ME 
TAKE CARE OF MY PARENTS AND MY BOOKS 
I'LL SEND POST CARDS FROM THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS 
FORGET ME NOT, THAX DOUGLAS 

 
FORGET ME NOT
FORGET ME NOT - BEST WISHES
FORGET ME NOT
FORGET ME NOT - BEST WISHES

Thax Douglas #1

Clandestino

The Funeral lyrics

I'm coming up only to hold you under
I'm coming up only to show you wrong
And to know you is hard, we wonder
To know you, all wrong we were
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Really too late to call, so
We wait for
Morning to wake you, that's all we got
To know me as hardly golden
Is to know me all wrong, they were
At every occasion, I'll be ready for the funeral
Every occasion, once more, it's called the funeral
Every occasion, know I'm ready for the funeral
Every occasion, oh, one billion-day funeral
I'm coming up only to show you down, for
I'm coming up only to show you wrong
To the outside the dead leaves, they're on the lawn
Before they died, had trees to hang their hope
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
At every occasion, I'll be ready for the funeral
Every occasion, once more, it's called the funeral
Every occasion, know I'm ready for the funeral
Every occasion, oh, one billion-day funeral

The Funeral (Band Of Horses Cover)

Baby Light

How I miss the light on the road
How I miss those days on the sand
When the life of others remains at all,
finally they went all around, far away, again...

You call too late to find anything
because you still remain on that side,
but you don't fool enough to be free
in our State of light...

Baby light, baby light, baby light...

Baby Light

Folk the haters: Great Aunt muse on homophobia and hurt in ‘Rock Paper Neighbour’

What does it mean to be ‘neighbourly’? asks Great Aunt.

A quick wave across the fence, a friendly word, a welcoming smile? 

How about nails in your driveway?

Great Aunt’s new song, ‘Rock Paper Neighbour’ is a musical retelling of a series of events between neighbours at odds. Why at odds? Because Great Aunt are a queer couple, and that didn’t quite sit right with the folks next door.

‘Rock Paper Neighbour’ is contemporary folk and progressive bluegrass turned on its head, and made deeply personal. In Great Aunt’s trademark spare and bold style, the song opens with a catchy percussive interplay between mandolin and double bass, while vocalist Megan Bird begins the story from the perspective of the kids next door:

‘Like catching a ball or flying a kite
Dad said, it’s easy if you try
And nanna said words that you hadn’t heard But she laughed
You like it when she does.’

There’s serious and dark subject matter within, made accessible by rapid-fire instrumental exchanges, and elements of musical and lyrical tongue-in-cheek: the duo gleefully sing us a series of ‘folk-rap’ verses, with increasingly sinister subject matter:

‘Ringing the doorbell
And running like hell
Putting nails in the driveway You're yelling obscenities Meating vegetarians Everything is spam now
It isn't f@#king hard now.’

“It hurt us a lot at the time,” says bassist and vocalist, Chelsea Allen. "We were deeply fearful to go outside for a while, wondering if it would continue to escalate. We went from having spoken a few friendly words across the fence to our neighbour, to finding attempts at spiking our car tyres, meat on our doorstep, rocks being thrown, having homophobic epithets shouted at us by their kids. We’re quiet and private but friendly, and although we potentially had lots in common with the father and would have happily returned many a lost frisbee for the kids, now we’re at a very sad and hate-driven impasse.”

The song has its denouement after a distinct mood shift in the bridge, written again from the perspective of the neighbours’ children. It represents childlike innocence and simpler times, but also Great Aunt’s own wishes: that we teach our kids, and each other, the possibilities in equality, community, and the beauty of difference.

‘Summer days, sweet lemonade 
Forever climb, no yours and mine 
Mountains of rock and paper for planes 
Jump the fence,
We’re all the same.’

‘Rock Paper Neighbour’ is striking and important new music by Great Aunt, and a subversion of a real and hateful situation. 

Be neighbourly and take a listen.

Rock Paper Neighbour

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